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Old 20-04-2012, 07:50 AM
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ic 1257

I have seen 97 globulars since 4/4/12.
Last night I saw IC 1257. I could only just see it in my 16" with averted vision. Attached is a wikisky.org image of it.
" New (1997) CCD photometry of the faint, compact star cluster IC 1257 (l=17(o,) b=+15(o) ), obtained with the Palomar 5m telescope, reveals that it is a highly reddened globular cluster well beyond the Galactic center. With an apparent distance modulus (m-M)_V = 19.2 and a foreground reddening E(B-V) = 0.75, it is 24 kpc from the Sun and ~ 16 kpc beyond the Galactic center. "
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997AJ....113..688H
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